Fleas

Habitat

Fleas are parasites, that need the carotene a protein found in the blood of warm blooded animals. Humans have perhaps 10% of the carotene that is in fur baring animals and as such fleas cannot survive having humans as their only host. When fleas bite humans, it is usually only a feeding opportunity; they do not have human hosts. Fleas usually enter a structure on a dog or cat and are often left in carpets, gardens, yards, and under buildings.

Identification

Adult fleas are about 1/16 to 1/8-inch long, dark reddish-brown, wingless, with firm bodies that are flat and tall, they are not easy to crush with fingers, they have three pairs of legs that permit easy movement between hair, fur or feathers. Fleas are exceptional jumpers, jumping vertically up to seven inches and horizontally thirteen inches and they have sharp-sucking abilities. Flea eggs are smooth, oval and white. Larva's are 1/8-inch long, slim, light-yellow, brown headed, wormlike, stubbly-haired insects, that are legless.

Treatment

Safe and Effective Pest Control

Chuck Sullivan's method of application and choice of products is safe for your family and pets but eliminates the bug problems.

We use synthetic pyrethroids, a botanical-based material derived from chrysanthemum flowers that works in the same way as our own pharmaceutical products, which are simply designed to speed up the body's metabolism. The formula applied to insects, being on a much smaller scale, will result in their metabolism increasing to the point of extermination.

You might call it... 'Bug-Speed'. To put it in perspective, for example, flea control products are made from synthetic pyrethroids and are designed to be placed directly on the pet's skin. The dog or cat is too large to be affected by the material, but is destructive to the much smaller flea.

Therefore, when applied by a trained exterminator, pyrethroids are safe for human and pet health as well as the environment as they are used in very small doses and often diluted in water or oil. The formula breaks down in the environment, heat and sunlight speeding this process.

Chuck Sullivan Exterminators provides the best way to get rid of fleas with an All Pest Service Guarantee so you won't have to worry about fleas in your home or commercial building after treatment has been applied.

Fleas are INCLUDED in the All Pest Service guarantee.

 

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